WORKS
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong | Annual Artist’s Lecture
Hosted at Asia Art Archive’s Library, this year’s Annual Artist’s Lecture welcomes Raqs Media Collective as the guest speakers.
Na-Bam
Na-Bam unfolds as meditation on water, depth, and the impossibility of measure. Presented as a six-screen video installation with video wallpaper, the work moves through shifting landscapes of land, river, sea, and forest—charting the imprints of thirst, flood, and memory.
The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone
The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone, published by Jencks Foundation (2023), takes the form of an artist book, and foregrounds text over image. Mirroring the film’s visual textures, the five voices in the pamphlet register varying distances from what is seen on the screen and its potential elucidations: voiceover, description of images, words on screen, added layers of annotations and meta-annotations.
All, Humans
All, Humans builds itself from uniquely human faculty of language to construct conceptual categories that transverse the human condition. It arcs out like a canopy – suspended between a multiplicity of minds, hearts and hands, sheltering and anticipating the universal human aspiration and claim for freedom, equality and dignity.
Tides of Our Tears
Tides of Our TearsShown at: Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, Richmond, United Kingdom (2025) |Sea Change: New climate stories for the Royal Docks by Invisible Dust‘, Public intervention at Royal Docks & Thames Barrier Park, London (2023) 7 augmented reality poems, QR Codes The Tides of Our Tears unfolds as seven augmented reality poems placed along […]
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time
e-flux journal #27, September 2011, Raqs Media Collective
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive
In The Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive Text by Raqs
soDA Magazine Story
soDA magazine 19, Zurich (2002); Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada), Raqs presented the concept of “Event-shaped Hole” which translated into the essay The Event-shaped Hole and the Photographic Image in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2021 Casebook (2014, AGYU Canada) A photograph is an image of an event-shaped-hole, and as witnesses to such perforations we could […]
Tears (are not only from weeping)
Tears are not only for weeping, they lubricate the possibility of vision. Sometimes we see things better when we cry, cry out aloud, or laugh, till the tears come unbidden.
Do Harmonious Friends cause dissonance?
Do Harmonious Friends cause dissonance?Shown at: ‘The Laughter of Tears’, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2021) Blackboard paint, newspaper, chalk, text, silkscreen, glass eyes6 frames of 55 x 70 cm each An owl and a donkey interpolate themselves, indicating the simultaneity of leaving and returning. Tyll of Braunschweig teaches us the trick of being on both sides […]
Memes and Fables
Memes and Fables: …tick tock Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 54.5cm Memes and Fables: …tock tick Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 68cm x 55.5cm Memes and Fables: …wicked Newspaper, blackboard ink, chalk and screen print. 2021 70cm x 57.5cm Memes and Fables: …let it be Newspaper, blackboard […]
31 Days
31 DaysShown at: ‘The Laughter of Tears’, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2021) | ‘The Pandemic Circle’, Stamps Gallery, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Expo Chicago – online (2020) | ‘CC: World’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt- online, Berlin (2020) Video with calligraphy, pixels, soundDuration, 17’45” A conversation in images, missives to selves and world, mood […]
Making Bets While Knowing Nothing
Text by Raqs, published in ‘The Collections Book, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary’, 2021
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